Images from the fall 2013 sumi ink workshop

Max Gimblett leading the 2013 VCS sumi ink workshop.

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Each year during the fall semester, the VCS program holds a workshop in which painter Max Gimblett teaches the students in Tom Huhn’s senior thesis class the philosophy and techniques of traditional sumi-e ink painting. Today’s post features a few images from the most recent workshop.

If you’d like to know a little more about Max Gimblett, sumi ink painting, its relationship to Zen Buddhism, and its influence on modern art, check out this post from 2009 about the first VCS sumi workshop. (You can also find the more images from this year’s workshop at the VCS Flickr page, and additional photos from two others at these links: 2010, 2012)